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Monday, January 12, 2015

What a whirlwind period in 2015, with the election and concerns raised right to the end on how it would be, and the aftermath!

I trust the historians will begin
writing this part of history, as it is unfolding very fast, and unless
documented immediately will not get reported properly. I know people will use
the internet and posts in papers to write this history but that will not be the
same as writing it as it happens, with a glimpse of the daily activities as it
unfolds.

For example, unless one knew, one will
not write that 5000 people gathered at the Bandaranaike Samathi in Horagolla
hoping to catch a glimpse of the new President and PM, and instead had to contend
with Rajitha Senaratne and the ubiquitous Harshana Rajakaruna who seems to be
everywhere, wherever there is a crowd or camera, but lost his electorate Dompe
to MR badly a few days ago. Does he want to get his votes from all electorates other
than his?

The new President and PM overflew the
place on their way to Kandy in the Chopper, and delivered his first address to
the nation from the historic Paddirippuwa there.

The day was rife with an MR planted bit of
news on the Cabinet of ministers, none of which had any grain of truth, and
resulted in all these supposed Ministers being bombarded with congratulatory
messages and emails and FB posts, which embarrassed them no end, and made fools
out of the supposedly intelligent people who seem to thrive in spreading these
rumors, without realizing that logic was certainly NOT on their side, when looking
at these spurious suggestions that were made.

That goes to show the education of the
Sri Lankans both here and overseas, who just don’t know how to decipher right
from wrong and make up their minds based on their ability to interpret the information
they are privy, and come to their OWN conclusions on what is right and wrong.

That is why I exhort my readers to judge
what I write with an analytical mind and believe what they want to believe and
not what I would like them to believe!

The most important Buddhist teaching is
to be wise in what one says and does and only believe once one is able to
rationalize the truth from the sources of information made available to you. If
it was true in the day so of the Lord Buddha why cannot it not be true today,
most especially in an information age, where all information can be dissected easily
as there are sources such as google to quickly verify some facts if that was
needed to come to the result.

Oh how I despair at the foolishness of
the most intelligent people on earth. Is it because of the rotten education
system they are exposed to? I don’t know but I suspect it to be so.

It is time we are able to catch up with the
amount of information that we are privy to. We also had the fracas of the SLFP
high command in two places both appointing the Chairman maintaining both were
legitimate, and it is to the Courts to decide who is legitimate. However the
constitution as I understand it is if the President is from the SLFP, the
chairmanship automatically goes to them. However the MR faction maintain that
the President, by coming forward from the new party is NO LONGER a member of
the SLFP and therefore the rule does NOT apply.

Now the secretaries to the Ministries
and PM and Pres are being appointed thick and fast and soon thereafter the members
of the interim Cabinet will be appointed. There will be many surprises and disappointments
and in politics it is difficult to please all. It is made more so, because
unequal members of the coalition will be given posts far above their people’s
representation.

It will be the UNP that suffers the
most, and in reality, it is them that contributed the most in numbers to this
victory. That is just a tough call on the elephant, and they will just have to
recoup their losses at the next general election with the people understanding
the contribution made by them to this historic victory of downing a despot who
seemed to have been planning a permanent stay!

The 50 day campaign and with little
funds to carry it out, proved the resilience of the people of Sri Lanka and how
much they can take and how much they can be fooled. As a Sinhala person I am a
little ashamed at the foolishness of the Sinhala electorate to be bought into
the Rajapakse canard of lies and deception and I sincerely hope the people will
in the next few days understand with clarity how easily the Rajapakse Administration
has taken them for a right royal ride!!!

I sincerely hope they will mature
politically and will not be able to fooled by people using the fear card and
the race card as a political gimmick on the foolish! It is up to us now to
explain by a responsible fourth estate that a continuation of lies can lead
people to a level of believing in lies for an extended period of time, and when
truth stares them in the face they cannot see it! I trust our blindness will be
cured in the ensuing months and the Country returns to a period of peace and
prosperity.